How Shall I Go to God?

by Horatius Bonar

Publisher:

Religious Tract Society

, 1881

Overview

One of Bonar’s most popular works, How Shall I Go to God? examines many of life’s complicated questions. Exploring happiness, hope, prayer, death, and more, Bonar offers unique and interesting perspective to life’s oldest questions.

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Key Features

• Examines many of life’s complicated questions
• Discusses the topics of hope and prayer

Contents

Top Highlights

“‘All true repentance begins with the knowledge of the forgiving love of God.’” (Page 11)

“It is with our sins that we go to God, for we have nothing else to go with that we can call our own. This is one of the lessons that we are so slow to learn; yet without learning this we cannot take one right step in that which we call a religious life.” (Page 5)

“He is answered that the ‘conversion,’ or ‘repentance,’ of which he is so desirous, can never take place so long as he regards God as a stern and unloving Judge. It is the goodness of God that leadeth to repentance,* and without the recognition of this ‘goodness’ there can be no softening of heart. An impenitent sinner is one who is despising the riches of His goodness and forbearance and long-suffering.” (Page 11)

“Imputed righteousness must come first. You cannot have the righteousness within till you have the righteousness without; and to make your own righteousness the price which you give to God for that of His Son, is to dishonour Christ, and to deny His cross. The Spirit’s work is not to make us holy, in order that we may be pardoned, but to show us the cross, where the pardon is to be found by the unholy; so that having found the pardon there, we may begin the life of holiness to which we are called.” (Page 16)

“Our qualification for obtaining that righteousness is that we are unrighteous, just as the sick man’s qualification for the physician is that he is sick.” (Page 16)

Praise for the Print Edition

A clear and beautiful exhibition of the way of a sinner’s acceptance with God.

—Religious Tract Society

Product Details

• Title: How Shall I Go to God?
• Author: Horatius Bonar
• Publisher: The Religious Tract Society
• Publication Date: 1881
• Pages: 145

About Horatius Bonar

Horatius Bonar (1808–1889) was born and raised in Edinburgh, Scotland, in a family with a long history of ministry in the Church of Scotland. After graduating from the University of Edinburgh in 1838 (where he studied under Dr. Thomas Chalmers), Bonar was ordained and became pastor of the North Parish, Kelso, where he remained for 28 years. He joined the Free Church of Scotland after “the Great Disruption” of 1843, and in 1853 he earned a Doctor of Divinity degree from the University of Aberdeen. In 1867 he took over ministry duties at Chalmers Memorial Church in Edinburgh, and in 1883 he was elected Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. A prolific author, he wrote and edited numerous books, biographies, articles, poems, tracts, and over 600 hymns.